← Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry
49ers at Rams Reaction + Travis Hunter, Malik Washington as Flex options
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October 3: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR), Jay (@croucherJD), and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) reflect on Mac Jones dialing in on Kendrick Bourne in the 49ers upset of the Rams and analyze Matthew Stafford’s hot stretch before addressing injury updates for Chuba Hubbard, Lamar Jackson, and Brock Bowers. Denny Carter then steps in to highlight Jalen Tolbert, Malik Washington, and Travis Hunter in “Flexual Frustrations”. The trio also addresses how they’re ranking Zay Flowers, Chris Olave, and Quinshon Judkins this week before Jay and Connor pitch Denny on prop bets for Stefon Diggs and Tony Pollard Sunday.
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That's better. Win this game. Because if they don't. Connor Rogers is just a broken man at the moment. Between the.
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More of a broken man.
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Yeah. Between the Mets blowing the playoffs without those two out of three losses to the Marlins, now the jets are.04, Rangers missing the playoffs. It's not good for Connor. Roger.
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Yes. His job requires him to work with me every day.
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Yes. He's just now. He used to get upset when the jets lose. Like he's sad when the Zach Wilson era. Now he's just angry. Now he just scorched earth on the New York jets so hopefully they can get a win.
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You hate to see a youngin get so bitter so early.
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It took me a while before I.
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Got to that level of bitter, but Conor is right there.
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Indeed.
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Fantasy football happy hour with Matthew Barry.
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C
Happy Friday.
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A
Welcome.
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Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour. Connor Rodgers. Bitter Connor.
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Bitter Connor. Yeah.
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Happy. Jay Croucher.
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B
Yeah. Glad you're here.
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C
Lifelong Yankees fan.
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B
Yeah. Oh, are we talking about Kam Schlitla today?
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C
I don't think so.
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Second one, two and three.
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C
No, I don't. I don't think so.
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B
We're gonna talk football.
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C
I think we're gonna talk a little football today. And we do have Matthew Berry out there deep in Tuscaloosa. Hello, Matthew. New backdrop?
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Yeah, it's. It's Whatever they have in the hotel. I thought it was better than this. This was the better backdrop than my messy bed with all the sheets that I have not made. You know, it's interesting that I say that. I remember my old podcast partner, Field Yates, and I once got into an argument. I'm curious what you guys think about this. About hotel Field, when he goes to a hotel, makes the bed. When he wakes up in the morning, he makes the bed.
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C
Not a good sign.
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I'm just like, it's a bad. And I'm just like, no, you're in a hotel. That's the whole point. Like, you leave it, you know, and then that's part of what you pay for, is for someone to come in and make the bed.
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B
Yeah.
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Hopefully change the sheets and everything. Yeah.
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B
I don't like to agree with you, Matthew, but you're 100% on the correct side there. That's very troubling behavior from Field.
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I'm concerned.
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I'm going to ask Field to be.
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This next time I see him.
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I don't care for that. That's not good.
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We got questions rolling in here. Oh, man. Yeah. The chat is upset. No ankles. I feel robbed. That's from Jesus Hermosia.
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Yeah.
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Matthew, you're. You got a different look today. The ankles will be back, what, Monday, maybe Sunday if people are lucky.
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You know what? You know what I'm gonna do?
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Be careful. Don't. Don't strain anything.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Don't pull anything. Five to one odds Barry is not wearing pants, which those odds might have cashed judging by that angle.
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For the angle, let's run that scream. Grab on F and I A. Oh, boy. Atrocious.
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Listen, plenty to do today. As he always does on Fridays, we will be joined by Dr. Denny Carter. We'll answer your questions for the weekend on what's on tap. Jay and I have pickup lines for Dr. Denny, but Matthew will be here with us as we go through the Roto World player news and of course, recap. A Another good Thursday night game. Another thrilling Thursday night game. Let's waste no time and get right into it. A lot of notable fantasy point scorers in this one. Kyron Williams obviously at the top, both as a receiving back and on the ground. Same for Christian McCaffrey as well. Matthew Stafford has a big night. Puka Nukua as well. And then Jay. How about Kendrick Bourne? The Connection revitalized with Mac Jones. We got to hear from them after the game. After the big win for the Niners.
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I think Mac is just. He's built the right way. His mental is the right way. He prepares the right way. I've seen it for a while now, and I'm just proud of him, man. I can. Even when he's throwing the ball, I be telling him at practice, like, man, you zipping the ball and how he's throwing and stuff like that. It's just be. You can tell he's confident. He's playing free and having fun. I think it's a big part of the game for him. So it's showing.
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That's what KB does. And I feel like when you have the relationship we had, I knew that about him and he knows that about me. Like, sometimes we struggle to move on from bad plays. So he's always got my back when it's not going great, and then I' ma always have his back. Kendrick Bourne drinks for free today. One of the most underrated personalities in the entire league, Kendrick Bourne.
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Unbelievable. Niners won on the scoreboard. They also won on the Runway. The aesthetics and Kendrick Bourne, just completely unmatched. But now look, this was. This was Kyle Shanahan's masterpiece. Right? That's no business winning this game. I know. I was watching Thursday night footballer saving Private Ryan for half of this game with Mac Jones limping around screaming. It's unbelievable. But Kendrick Bourne seems to have that rapport with Mac Jones from the New England days. And Kyle Shanahan is willing to put the ball in Mac Jones's hands. So we see that Kendrick Bourne goes 10 for 142. Christian McCaffrey, by the way, is on pace for 1300 receiving.
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This is ridiculous.
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Which would have been like third in the NFL last year among all players. Your man, Connor, Jake Tonjas. Eleven targets, goes 7 for 41 and a touchdown. Marcus Robinson, Kyle Juszczyk checking in. I just think this is such a testament to Kyle Shanahan.
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It really was. I mean, when you see a graphic that shows Kyle Juszczyk getting four targets, it kind of tells you how banged up this team was. But Shanahan is somebody that. We've seen this before with him, Matthew. He can win with backup quarterbacks. He can find backup receivers, ways to scheme them open. And Mack and Kendrick Bourne had it going all night for this team.
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Yeah, you know, they really did. 84% route participation for Kendrick Bourne, 23% target share, five slot targets. To your point, Jay, about Kyle Shanahan, just sort of scared, scheming up a win. They put Kendrick Bourne a lot of different positions to get the Ball on his hands. Friend of the podcast Kendrick Bourne. One of the. One of the more favorite interviews we've ever done. He was with us on super bowl radio row a couple years ago and like didn't had really, you know, knew much about him personality wise he's awesome. He's an easy guy to root for. So it was nice to sort of see his moment in the sun here. I don't know that there's a massive fantasy takeaway here because there's a chance that we have Jennings, Ricky, Juan Jennings, Ricky Pierce all and George Kittle all back in week six. And so whether it is Mac Jones or Brock Purdy under center, I sort of think that if those guys are healthy, sort of a, you know, good for you if you started, if you picked up and started Kendrick Bourne in a league like our very own George Savarikis did shout out to George. He did that. Well done, well played. But I don't know that there's a massive takeaway here unless those guys miss time. The one thing, the one take it is is if those guys continue to miss time. At least now we have clarity on sort of who the who the number one Niners wide receiver. When Pearcell and Jennings is out. To me, the more interesting conversation here, guys, is Mac Jones. I'm with you, Jay. That, that red and black suit was something else. But Connor, I thought he looked very comfortable in this Kyle Shanahan offense. And as we know, there was talk that Kyle wanted to draft Mac Jones and not Trey Lance with the third overall pick a few years back in the draft that they ended up getting Brock Purdy in the last. With the very last pick of that draft.
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Yeah. Now you see why, right? Just the confidence and decisiveness and how accurate is when you keep them upright. And obviously Mac Jones took some huge shots last night. He really hung in there. Looked like multiple times, Jay, he was going to have to come out of this game and he kept limping back in. But that's what Kyle Shanahan cares about in this offense is can you work to the proper reads and get the ball out on time and accurately. And that's Mac Jones's best traits. Honestly, when you look at when he was working with Josh McDaniels in New England before that staff completely fell apart, this is what he looked like. It's just that we had so many years of incompetence and then he was a backup last year. And Jackson Mulberry also played pretty well. He's a structure guy, but obviously he can play very well within the structure.
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Yeah.
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And I thought that I think the most underrated stat in all of football, sacks from the quarterback perspective. I thought the most impressive thing about Mac Jones last night was he dropped back or 49 times and it couldn't move for most of the game. And so I believe just took the one sack or so. Jared Verse never got him. He was able to stay upright, he was able to keep the offense on track. And I think the big thing, Connor, about this offense was two things. One, they just can't run the ball at all. This is now five games in a row where Christian McCaffrey has not even sniffed efficiency on the ground. For whatever reason. They just can't, they can't create efficiency on the ground. So that means that they have to throw the ball and Kyle Shanahan feels comfortable putting the ball in Mac Jones's hands. Seems like a good chance that Kittle Pearsall and Joanne Jennings all come back next week. So this offense is going to be a lot more loaded with explosive and extremely competent pass catches like Mac Jones last night on DraftKings. He's, I think his passing prop closed like 213 and a half. This guy's going for 279 plus and all three of his starts. Right. He is going to be a guy I think who when he's starting is, is going to put up 250 plus passing yards because they can't run and with a good chance of one or two passing touchdowns. So I think that's a very viable QB to Matthew.
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Yeah, he's averaged over 19 fantasy points per game in his three starts. And it does, it does ask the question like seeing how well Mac Jones has played during this stretch, like should they have given Brock Purdy, you know, whatever it was, you know, close 40 some odd million a year. Because for the people that are critical of Brock Purdy and we are Brock Purdy fans on this show, but for the people that are critical of Brock Purdy who say he's a system quarterback, he's a, he's a, you know, beneficiary of Kyle Shanahan scheme, Mac Jones performance isn't helping counter that argument. But I agree with you. Like again, it feels like the Purdy injury might be a little bit more serious and that there's a chance he's not back next week. And so especially as we get into the bye weeks, Jones is a very viable streamer as long as, as long as Purdy is out. By the way, guys, roll Tide. Mac Jones, of course a Proud Alabama graduate. Roll Tide. Roll Tide. Damn it.
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Wasn't sure if you're an Alabama fan. I saw the hat first and then the T shirt confirmed it. It's good to win in Rome, Jay. Yeah.
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You know what? Like, like I know. I know you know, you who like, you know every other week is a lifelong fan of somebody. But you know, at some point, some of us with integrity have to plant a flag and say, yeah, you're damn right. Damn right.
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To Jay's credit, he wants nothing to do with a college team.
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No, no, no. I'm out on college, but I'm a Colts man.
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This has been a longer one, by the way. Mac Jones average time to throw 2.36 seconds in week four. That would have been the second fastest, only behind Aaron Rodgers. But unlike Aaron Rodgers, there's actually some depth to his targets. I'm serious, Julio. Thank you are always good to see him amongst the regulars. Future Emmy award winner Connor Rodgers and Evil J. Matching hoodies is a vibe.
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Yeah.
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Welcome to the.
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Welcome to the movement.
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Yeah, I'm a part of it. It's October, apparently.
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Track show Friday. Just tracksuit Friday is just out of the. Out the door now. It's fitting Friday.
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No more big show. I gotta get Medium show on board. Once I get him in a tracksuit, then it'll return.
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By the way, just linking back to the Brock Purdy point. Connie, you just said it's October. It's not. It's Brocktober now. We've crossed over into Brocktober.
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He will be the.
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No, Not Mac.
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It's MacTober.
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Brock Purdy is better than Mac Jones. I say this with a great deal of confidence. He just does more things on the football field than Mac Jones does. Now, maybe the gap isn't as big as we thought that it might be a few weeks ago, but Purdy will come back. And here's the thing. Purdy will be the starter. He will come back and he'll be the starting job because they paid him a quarter of a billion dollars. So he has to be the starter and I think rightfully so. But I don't think that really materially changes the outlook for anyone skill position wise.
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What would the Bengals offense look like if they had Mac Jones? Everybody wonders they'd be.
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Yeah. Be trying to go to 41 against the Lions this week.
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That's exactly right. All right, on the other side of this game, how about this, Matthew. Buy or sell? Matthew Stafford is a starter in one quarterback leagues. I ask you this as he wasn't a starter for you last night in our two quarterback leagues.
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No, he certainly wasn't. You know I mean look this is the he scored 25 points. He scored you know over 25 fantasy points last week and he has not scored 25 or more fantasy points in back to back weeks since week six and seven of 2021. He's not somebody that runs a lot so obviously you need the volume with his arm with the passing touchdowns as well. So I decided this week Connor to start Drake May who I like a lot, who made the Love list and Jaden Daniels, two guys that I have ranked inside my top 10. So yes I had Matthew Stafford on my bench. I will say I was looking to, I was throwing a little bit of trade, you know around like because I do think Stafford is good. Lawrence Jackson offered me Amari D. Micardo and a super flex league for Matthew Stafford so I, I politely declined. The, the second Arizona running back that you don't want for a quarterback in a two quarterback league. Yeah Lawrence ridiculous. But anyway, yeah, I did not start Matthew Stafford. I know a lot of people didn't. He was only 25% started across sort of the, the fantasy football atmosphere. Like seriously, most people did not start Matthew Stafford in a short week against.
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I was glad you were one of them.
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I was indeed. I was indeed one of them. But like I don't know that he's a quarterback yet in a two and a one quarterback league but he certainly is in a, in a two quarterback league and he's borderline. I mean like as we get in the buys now on the season he's QB11. He's had four straight games with two or more touchdown passes. As long as Puka Dukua is and Devonte Adams are healthy, you know he's going to be there. You know, we don't really expect Kyro Williams to catch one receiving touchdown, let alone two. Part of the argument against Stafford is that they A he doesn't run and B when they get in close they tend to run. But similar to the 49ers Jay, it doesn't feel like the Rams have been able to run that effectively and Stafford just looks dialed in. No more back issues and of course we're all, you know, Puka looks like the best wide receiver in football right now.
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Yeah, they've had some issues and some injuries on the offensive line. Not quite the same continuity that they had particularly two years ago. The Kyren Williams fumble certainly not ideal either. I love that Matthew just looped in that 25% velocity to Matthew, accountability is like Swahili. Just doesn't understand it. Unbelievable.
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Hang on for one second. I'm genuinely curious. Accountability. Did I start him? I did not. What is not what is dodging accountability.
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For that 25% reference? That's 25%.
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I'm just saying I have company, but I'm whatever. None of them have national TV shows. I do. Merely saying I ranked this. I'm owning it. I ranked Jayden Daniels and Drake May over both over Matthew Stafford this week. We will find out at the end of the week if that was the correct ranking.
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But, you know, it is what it is.
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I got that call wrong, clearly. Or at least I. Yes, I probably should have started him. I did not, you know, but again, that was the logic, I think. I think Drake may and you know, I like Drake May and Jane Daniels this week. I don't know. I don't understand how that's not accountability. I don't know how that's dodging accountability.
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Though.
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Before I get to the question from Charlton right there, Jonathan Medici in the chat said the excuse ler makes an appearance.
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Excuse.
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That's good. That's a good nickname for you. Excuse me, it's in the running.
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That's why I rather than Trev love excuse.
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But I'm genuinely asking. I'm asking the regulars because you two assholes won't give me a answer here. But I don't understand how saying, yeah, I bench the guy is not taking accountability.
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That's accountable. The not accountable is the fact that you have to caveat it with the 25% aspect. It wasn't just me. Everyone else made the same mistake. Not as much.
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Yes, that's an accurate statement. Statement. That's not like, go on the. Go on the website that we, that we use and you will see Matthew Stafford was. Matthew Stafford, by the way, is only rostered in 52% of leagues. Like there's a number of leagues out there where he's not even on a roster. And so my point is, is that there are many fantasy managers, not just myself waking up this morning going, damn, guess I should have started Matthew Stafford. Wish I had started Matthew Stafford. The question is, after last week, we're like, I don't know if you can see it. And necessarily like we've always said this pocket pastors need pocket passers need massive volume to be fantasy viable because they don't get any points with a leg. And so Stafford has not traditionally been a massive volume guy. Again, this is the first time in his career this guy was 38 years old. It's the first time in his career where he's passed for 375 yards in back to back games. So is it just the result of a, of last week's game where they made a, where they had to make a comeback and then were there a big back and forth obviously and then this week, short week and they couldn't run the ball or is this like sort of the new normal because he's never had Pukinakua and Devonte Adams before. So I think I'm not ready to sit here and say like yes, he's a must start in one quarterback. He is a must start in two quarterback leagues and I think he is one quarterback league viable. Depending on your other options and the matchups. Next week they're at the Ravens. You like that matchup given how strong, how much their defense is. Straight struggle. The Jaguars are better than they get credit for. But that game's in London where it's sort of a second home for the Jaguars. So that's a, that's a medium. It's not a great matchup like you might think in years past, but it's also not a, you know, it's, you know, whatever. It's not, it's not the worst in and out the Seahawks either. So yeah, I think Stafford is, you know, borderline qb. One league, one quarterback league viable is what I would say there. It doesn't matter. By the way, had I started Matthew Stafford or not because Kyle Rogers has Kyron Williams. You're welcome America. Because I was facing Kyron Williams. You knew he was going to go off. Of course he did. 31 fantasy points leave a career high. Two rushing, two receiving touchdowns. It doesn't matter. Conor's going to beat me. I've said this before early. Congratulations, Connor, well done, well played. Nice job starting Kyron Williams. That was a bold. He's crying and worked out. It worked out for you.
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Congratulations Matthew. You cut out the past 10 minutes. You'll have to repeat that whole segment. The woe is mealer. Matthew Berry. We had a question from child 10 minutes ago. Stafford, Danny Dimes or Gough as a starter through the season or only worth streaming? I think it's. That's. That's tight because I think those are all in the same.
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They're all right there.
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Yeah, I think gaff because the lines are just rolling week in and week out.
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Yeah. Golf has the highest floor, right? Yeah.
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Rest of the season I default to floor.
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I think ceiling wise. It actually strangely might be Danny Dimes because of the rushing upside and the fact that he's going to get some rushing touchdowns. So I think you can't really go wrong there. I might go Jones because of the rushing aspect.
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I think I would go golf for the floor and I just, you know, I'd rather. But I think you're right in the sense that if I had all three quarterbacks probably try to trade one and I wouldn't care who I traded. If somebody in your league preferred Daniel Jones or Stafford to Goff, I would trade whoever somebody was interested in because I think they're all sort of right there. They're all probably like 9, 10, 11, 10, 11, 12 sort of in that range for the rest of the season. They're all just sort of right there and if I had all three I would probably just play the matchups week in, week out but would try to trade one of them and wouldn't care which one I traded. I would just trade the one that I got the most value for.
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Alright, let's take a look at the week five injuries that we're going to be tracking. Of course the guys will have more updates for you before kickoff on Sunday On Fantasy football pregame. Lamar Jackson with his hamstring that's going to look like a Cooper Rush game. Bucky Irving will not be playing as well. Foot and shoulder injuries. Chuba Hubbard will not be playing with the calf injury. Bashal Tutin has a shoulder. Michael Pittman with a hamstring. Tebow Samuel with a heel injury. Calvin Ridley with knee and elbow injuries. Brock Bowers is still working through that knee injury and that's been pretty obvious on tape through a couple weeks now. I think the big one right out of the gate here. Jay, is that the chubbler? Chuba Hubbard with this calf he's not expected to play Sunday. Rico Daddle becomes a very he's on some waivers. Honestly like this is like a kind of rush to the waiver wire situation assuming just based on volume that he'll get.
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Yeah, Rico Dowdle, it was a very favorable matchup as well against the Dolphins. That game is hanging around pick. There's not going to be that many games for the Panthers this hanging around pick. And so I think that Rico doubt like he's much more attractive than say you know, any of the Arizona running backs. I think you can be pretty confident of the amount of work that he is going to get. So he is. Yeah he has to be obviously rostered in every league and he's a. Yeah like a locked in RB2 at worst for this week.
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Well, he's 76% available right now. Matthew, how would you rank Dowdle after this news? Because this feels like a pretty large shift.
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Yeah. I mean I'd make him a top 15 running back. You know, again, he's, he's 76% available so far this year. We've seen, we've seen Dowdle, you know, we've seen Dowdle last year in Dallas handle a big workload here. The Panthers, you know, are they a great offense? No. Or can they be reasonably confident? Yes. And so I think Dowdle, where he may not be the most efficient, but he's going to get all the work in a, in a, you know, in a matchup. That doesn't really scare you. So yeah, give me Rico Dowdle over sort of the because just because I think there's going to be a massive workload there. I think Rico Dowdle over the Michael Carter slash Amari Dimacardo in Arizona duo over the Rashad White Sean Tucker duo in Tampa Bay. You know, Isaiah Davis as well, you know, who's going to fill in for Braylon Allen as part of a committee with Breece Hall, Dallas, the guy that majority of the work right there. By the way, just while you're talking, two quick updates. Adam Schefter reporting. Bucky Irving officially out for Sunday. So that is, that is official and worth noting. Joel Erickson, who writes for the Indy Star and covers the Colts, your Colts, Jay Croucher says Michael, he says at Friday's practice Michael Pittman is out here. I do not see Alec Pierce. That's what he just tweeted out. So doesn't mean Michael Pittman's definitely starting, but certainly a positive sign that he's at least practicing that the, that you know, the implication here from the tweet Michael Pittman is out here makes, I would assume that he is actually practicing and not just hanging around watching.
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Yeah, a big thing like with these injury reports is that like it varies for different players. Michael Pittman plays through everything like as tough as anything. Like it takes a lot to keep him off the field. So if he's able to get even a limited practice in, I suspect that he is going to go. It's a little concerning with Alec Pierce because Alec Pierce is coming off the concussion and he did practice, I believe in full the past two days. So maybe a rest day for Pierce. But that's a little bit of a concern for a guy who's dealt with a lot of concussions in his past.
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C
All Right, guys, how about commanders? Jayden Daniels back, but they've ruled out Terry McLaurin for Week 5 already against the Chargers. Deebo Samuel with that heel injury. Matthew, he didn't practice on Thursday, so this could be once again another week of a lot of Luke McCaffrey.
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Yeah, Luke McCaffrey, Chris Moore, Zach Ertz, they'll try to use the running backs as well. It's, you know, I think if I had to pick one desperately, I would be Luke McCaffrey. But I don't feel great about any of them, really, you know, unless you're truly desperate. I mean, I think some of the. Some of the wide receivers I like that are available more than 60% of leagues. We've talked about them forever, Connor. But Ella Ko Manor, I think, you know, that's not a terrible matchup. You're not scared about their. Manor leads the team, the Titans, he leads it and you know, in targets and receptions, air yards and, you know, he scored in two of the last three, so I think he's pretty interesting. Troy Franklin for the Denver Broncos. Of course I AM. As a. As wide receiver 32, he's available in 70% of leagues. Our old friend Trey Tucker, he's out there about half the leagues I'm at wide receiver 38. And Connor, the man you spent a zillion dollars all of your fab budget on Malik Washington. I was a top 40 play this week in that Tyreek Hill role. He's available in 75% of leagues. Even if you don't start in this week, I think Malik Washington is an important grab and stash. Darius Slayton filling in the Malik Neighbors role also out there in about half the leagues.
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C
Another bit of big news across the fantasy landscape. Let's actually get to a question before we talk. Lamar Jackson's hamstring injury and all of the stuff around that. Jacob starting dowdle over a Buka in my flex spot in ppr. Thoughts? What do you think of that, Matthew? Because Abu has been amazing this year.
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I mean, that's the. That's the thing, right? I mean, like, you know, that's a. Yeah. I mean, I can't. I get it. That just feels a little bit too cute. A book has just been so red hot. I just can't imagine me clicking bench on a Mecca Buca. Like, I understand the logic again because Dallas probably going to touch the ball 20 times here, but I probably would still stick with a booker. You guys tell me.
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I would actually stop Dowdle because one book has been a little bit Banged up to a lot of his production has been touchdown based. Like he's not on average, he's not going to score a touchdown everywhere. You'd be a dog to score a touchdown this week. You take out that ridiculous 70 yard bomb from Baker last week, splitting the two guys in the secondary for the Eagles and Igbuka's, you know, closer to 200 receiving yards on the season. I think a book is amazing, but I think the Dowdle against the pretty weak defense in Miami, against the game where gamescript shouldn't get away from him. Like, Dowdle has a chance to be a workhorse running back in a favorable matchup. So Phil. And also like Seattle's secondary is incredible and they might have the best defense or one of the three, four best defenses in football. So I would lean Dowdle there. As good as Booker has been the.
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Fact that I get that argument and if I was in a league and I saw somebody make that move, bench a Booker for Dowdle, I'm not being like, what's that guy doing again? I just think Kabuk has been so hot. I sort of bet on talent. I just think a book is a better football player than Rico. Dowdle is just, you know, I understand they play different positions and we expect different workloads, but you just, I don't know, you just never know. Connor, but why don't you break the tie here? A Buca versus Dowdle.
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I roll with what I know right now and that's a Buka. I just get the fear that we love the volume of Dowdle and then Miami, who looked really bad against the run against the jets, kind of has a course correct week of like, okay, we're going to sell out to stop the run this week. I am starting Dowdle in a Guillotine league. So I'm hoping that like, I have faith in him this week, but Abuka has been so good week in and week out. It's just hard for me to not play him going forward. Even with Chris Godwin's workload going up this week.
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Here's a way to kind of phrase this one, Matthew. I do think it is an interesting conundrum. Who'd rather start Rico Dowdle or his teammate Tetaroa McMillan this week.
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Again, still McMullen I get boy, because.
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I think McMillan and Igbuka are basically the same.
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Yeah, I mean, just Abukas had more touchdowns. Right.
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I mean, what school does Carolina in?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, I just, I feel better about Baker Mayfield than Bryce Young. Right. By a significant margin. Right. So that's, that's also in the conversation. You can always hand off. But like it's not like Chuba Hubbard's been great this year. Like we feel like, we feel like Chuba Hubbard is the better running back than Rico Dowdle. Certainly the Panthers do. They paid him like they think they are. There's. They're.
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You.
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They were using Hubbard like that. And so I think I'm still going with Tedro McMillan again, I'll just say in general and this sort of goes back to what Conor was saying. But for me in general, when I have conversations like this where it's a little bit of a coin flip, I just usually go with who I think is the better player. Like I try, you know, we can get cute with matchup and usage and everything like that. But I just, overall I think Ted Roa McMillan is just a better NFL player than Rico Dowdle. I just do. And so I just, I kind of always just try to lean towards talent in situations like that.
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Alright, a big, another big piece of injury news here. Lamar Jackson. This one's obviously been the headliner of the week and not a surprise. Didn't practice with that hamstring injury Thursday. We actually got to hear more from coach Harbaugh on the quarterback situation in Baltimore without Lamar Cooper's experience.
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He's been in these situations before, as is Tyler and he's up to speed. He's been with us all the way back to the beginning. He's been in every, every practice, every meeting. You know, he knows the offense and he'll be ready to go.
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Similarly with Tyler, how much does that obviously have familiarity and then yeah, he.
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Has a little bit of a different.
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Skill set than Mobile guy.
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Yeah, the valuable thing, I mean, you know, he does have familiarity with the offense and that and he's very comfortable with it already because he's been in it and then you know, the different things he brings to the table just obviously as a player is valuable.
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So obviously Jay, I mean it doesn't sound good for Lamar. I think what we're all wondering right now is if this goes beyond this week because hamstrings are extremely tricky and very week to week, day to day injuries.
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Yep. I think the thing with two of Lamar is that everyone looked at that footage of the last play that he had before he came out and thinking it doesn't look like a normal hamstring. I don't think Lamar's been right for the past couple of weeks. Lamar Jackson, if he's fully healthy, I don't think gets sacked seven times by Detroit and he didn't really look right against the Chiefs either. So I mean the reporting has been this is a likely multi week injury. So I think the inflection point is more does he play next week against the Rams before the buy or do they give him an extra week? But if Lamar doesn't go as anticipated against the Texans, this line moved by the way from Ravens -9 and a half to Texans -2 and a half. So if you wonder how valuable Lamar Jackson is, he swung a line almost two touchdowns basically by himself. Matthew, if Lamar can't go, I don't really want to start any Ravens pass catcher Zay Flowers even is set at 45 and a half receiving yards on DraftKings like Rashad Bateman 25 and a half, Mark Andrews 24 and a half. Derrick Henry's rushing probably is 88 and a half and I think that is where this offense is going to go. I think you still feel good about starting the King who is a reluctant member of your team in our league. So I think that outside of that though, there's no one I really feel good about at Baltimore.
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The only other person that I could make an argument for I get that I think it's hard to bench Zay Flowers. I think you're just lowering expectations. But the only other person that I think I could make an argument for again giving all the injuries and all the and the bye weeks is maybe Justice Hill is that like again like he's going to play about half the snaps we do think, you know, until he's at pass catcher. And so Cooper Rush, who's not the most mobile guy, doesn't have the biggest arm, could see him dumping off to Justice Hill a little bit more than Lamar does. And so we've seen, you know, Hills coming up the big game from last week as well. So Justice Hill is sort of a little interesting this week as well.
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All right guys, a bit of injury news that was kind of been like this for a couple of weeks now. Brock Bowers didn't practice on Thursday. We know he's gutting through this knee injury. You could see he looks 60 to 70% at best on tape right now, Matthew. But I still would be surprised if he doesn't end up playing Sunday. I just think you have to know you're starting a hampered Brock Bowers at this point.
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Yeah, but half of Brock Bowers is still likely better than any options you have on the waiver wire. Right? I mean like Brock Bowers or Darren Waller. Right. Darren Waller off of the big two touchdown game. Like I'm still starting Brock Bowers. Right. And to me, Waller would be the best guy available on the waiver wire. Yeah. I'll ask you guys a question. Here you go. Here's your question. Brock Bowers or Harold Fannin, who we think gets a boost from Dylan Gabriel.
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Being understand still Brock Bowers.
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He can't exactly.
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You'd be furious if Harold had three catches for 25 yards and Bowers catches a touchdown.
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Of course. That's my thought.
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Yeah, I'm with you. All right. The last one here, once again, we haven't really talked about him in a while, but the Houston Chronicles, John Alexander reports there is no one who has told me they expect Joe Mixon to return this season. I think that if you're out there, Jay, holding on to Joe Mixon, there's probably no reason to have him on your roster if you're oddly one of those people.
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Yeah. Even if he does miraculously come back, like it's not going to be Joe Mixon from last year getting 22 carries in random games. It's going to be, I would think, a committee at best. And I would say that just based on all the information, if I were pricing a market on whether we see Joe Mixon or not this year, I would make not the favorite there, just with everything that's been reported. So it's the Woody Marks show. The chubby magic has been passed on from Nick to Woody. And I think that Woody Marks is clearly the guy you want in that backfield now.
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All right, if you're hurting because of these injuries, here's what's left of the top Week 5 waiver targets here for us. As you see Jackson Dart top 15 quarterback, Tuatanga by Loa, right outside the top 15, Rico Dowdle, who once again with this news dropping later in the week. Check your waivers. He was available in 76% of leagues. He's a top 15 play. Michael Carter has a chance of being the starting running back for Arizona. He's a top 25 running back. Sean Tucker, Isaiah Davis should get some kind of roles in committees with those backfields banged up Ellicio Manor, we tell you to pick up every single week. Desperation play territory. Troy Franklin, Brenton Strange and Mason Taylor for updated waivers. You got something?
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Yeah, I'm going to say out there right now real quickly, which is that I just, I think Sean Tucker and we talked about this the other day, but with Bucky Irving officially ruled out, a little bit of A bold call here. Like Rashad White is the safer play. You know, he's, you know, he's got a consistent role in this offense and it likely expands with the injury to Bucky Irving. I think Sean Tucker is the better running back, and I think in terms of how they run their offense, I think Sean Tucker is the more one for one replacement of Bucky Irving than Rashad White. I don't think it is. Rashad White moves into the Bucky Irving role and Sean Tucker gets the Rashad White role. I think Sean Tucker moves into the Bucky Irving role, just maybe not as big and that some of the carries that Irving was getting go to Rashad White. But I don't think there's as big a gap as the roster percentage suggests as Rashad White seems to be kind of rostered everywhere and Sean Tucker is still obviously very much available in a lot of leagues. I'm just, I'm a big Sean Tucker believer and so that. I'm just calling that shot right now that I think we're going to. I think you will see a changing regard. It would not shock me at all if Sean Tucker has the better fantasy day than Rashad White on Sunday. Now, again, they're playing the Seahawks, very tough defense, but they do have Tristan Wurfs back, which is good and, and helpful there. Jay. But just want to point that out with Sean Tucker. I like him. I'm considering Connor Rodgers starting Sean Tucker against you in our league. I'm terrifying. I'm down 31. I'm down 31 thanks to. Thanks to Kyron Williams. So I have to take some, you know, gambles here, you know, just to try to cover the spread. Spread was 30, so I'm already chasing.
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C
The one spread in fantasy football.
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B
Yeah. Yeah. I liked earlier comment. Matthew, you should tell people tonight at the bars in Tuscaloosa, just go up to them, say I'm a Sean Tucker guy.
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C
Yeah. See how it goes.
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Yeah, it's. It's a good. It is the year of Tucker, as we mentioned, between Trey and Kraft. PJ's not doing that much, but maybe Sean can get on the bike too. As we covered yesterday, I think it's going to be Tucker and White split the carries 50, 50 and white gets the receiving work.
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This one from Tej, who's always a regular every day. Should I start Sean Tucker over Jordan Mason given the Browns defense?
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No.
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Yeah, I agree with. As much as I like Sean Tucker, that's getting a little bit too cute again. We just. With knowing how it's a tough matchup obviously with the Browns defense, but Jordan Mason just. We know he's going to get just a massive workload here, so no, I would. I'm still starting Jordan Mason.
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All right, Matthew, it's been great having you for the beginning the first half of our Friday. It's been okay having you for our first Friday half of our Friday show here. Enjoy your time out there in Tuscaloosa. Catch you on Sunday.
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Roll Tide. Let's beat Vandy. See you guys Sunday morning.
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C
For updated waiver advice heading into Sunday's games, tune into Fantasy Football pregame live here on YouTube and Peacock starting at 11am Eastern Eastern Time. The boys will be answering all your start sick questions Sunday morning and you can also tweet us your questions using the hashtag ffpregame that includes video submissions that they will air live on the show. That is wild. We are taking our first break. When we're back, Matthew's out, Dr. Carter is in. We solve your flexual frustrations right after this break.
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C
Prices and participation may vary right now.
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B
Perhaps the embodiment of settling is the great Sterling Shepherd. Should we settle for Sterling Shepherd?
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You wanted Mike Evans to be there, you know, at the end of the night. And he's not. He's not. He, you know, he has the hamstring. He's gone from the bar. You know who's there? It's Sterling Shepherd. And I think that that's okay.
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Totally understand the phenomenon of settling. That is how I got my wife.
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B
Okay.
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A
Because she had her. Her. She had her eyes set high.
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Yes.
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But then, you know, she. Eventually, she's just like, whatever, yowski. You know, she's got a shepherd.
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She plays Sterling Shepherd.
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Yeah, of course. Yeah. No, I'm the Sterling Shepherd.
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Sterling Barry.
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My wife's. My wife's love life. Sterling Berry. Yeah, exactly.
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Flexural frustrations. Yes, it's that time of the week where an actual certified doctor joins the show. And his name is Dr. Denny Carter. Happy Friday to you, Denny.
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Yeah, happy Friday to you. I was unfortunate enough to see Barry's ankles, of course, at the beginning of the show. Very diagnosis. But, you know, it's good tv is what I would say. And the people. The people need the ankles. Obviously, they asked for it.
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Yeah, it's tv. It's tv. By literal definition, it is tv. But. Yeah. All right, let's get into flexural frustrations, Denny. And where I want to start. Toys. I want to talk to you about toys, the safety of toys. Dak Prescott, he has a new toy. Jalen Tolbert given CD Lamb is down. Dak Prescott is playing with his new toy. Jalen Talbot played with his new toy down the right sideline. One of the best throws I've ever seen in my life, being in the stadium in Dallas, connecting on that beautiful fadeaway. How. How safe is it to start Jalen Tolbert this week?
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So, you know, Dax, favorite toy, CD Lamb, not available. You know, in the shop right now. Jalen Tolbert will do, you know, and in a pinch, I should say, and maybe for your fantasy lineups as well. In Week 5 against the packers last week, Jalen Tolbert ran 83% of the routes. He saw 32% of the air yards, which we love. We love our air yards, don't we? And saw six targets. So, honestly, the guys I talk about in this segment, Jalen Tolbert is like AJ Brown compared to most guys. He is a fun. Like you said, Jay, Toy for Dak Prescott in a Good matchup, Denny.
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Some people, they try to solve their flexual frustrations by buying love and I think a lot of people did that this week with Malik Washington being a popular spending point with Fab on waivers. Is he going to solve their frustrations though right away?
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You know, it depends on what kind of music you listen to. In the 60s they say you can't buy love and then by the 80s they were saying you actually can buy love. It's quite simple. You just need a credit card and a really fancy car. So it does depend on what generation you're talking about. I say you can. Okay. I side with the 80s of course. Malik Washington should take on a pretty prominent role here after Tyreek Hill's horrific leg injury on in week four he saw an A dot talking about Washington an adot average depth of target of 2.3 in that game. Now I think that will expand. I hope it does a little bit. But we're talking about guys a potential PPR scam artist in Malik Washington and honestly I can work with that. We can work with that especially and bye weeks. With the bi week apocalypse having hit us now in week five, you feel pretty good about starting Washington Maybe in deeper 12 team leagues or 14 team leagues.
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Yeah. Connor Rogers not so much the expensive car but did buy a lot of love with Malik Washington in our expensive Matthew. Yeah on Malik love. Want to talk to you doctor about Travis Hunter who is a man who's been known to play for both teams, plays for both sides of the ball, offense and defense. It looks like he might be focusing though on. On one way to be Denny with playing much more purely on offense.
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Last week he was you know, taken out of the game after eight snaps on on defense. So really focusing on just the one side which is fine. And, and honestly if he, if he wanted to do the both that's okay too, you know there's nothing, nothing wrong with either. I will say for folks who fell out of love with Travis Hunter who you know, drafted him greedily in August, rightfully so. He's a cool guy, lots of cool production in college he played for a cool team and a cool coach.
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Alright.
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He's a bit. It's very. The vibes are off the charts for this guy. He plays from the slot. I wanted to mention on 67% of his routes so far he's playing a Kansas City defense that has struggled pretty badly against slot receivers. They're allowing the sixth highest completion rate to slot receivers and the 11th most receptions. So it actually could be a Week where you can put Travis Hunter into your flex spot.
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Believe it or not, Dr. Carter is going to stay with us for what's on tap. Before we get to that, let's take a look at the fantasy football happy hour. Week five regular power rankings. Yes. Clark Brady. It's hard to dethrone the king.
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Where is Tej?
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C
Yeah, I'm kind of wondering how this is curated at this point.
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B
Unbelievable. It's like not ranking Ohio State.
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C
Right know Julio think you are.
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B
Yeah, I don't know about this.
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C
Jonathan Medici. I'm pretty sure called him the excuse ler though that's. That's well worthy of a top five.
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B
This is like when FSU didn't get into the playoffs two years ago. I'm not sure about that.
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A
Right.
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C
To be angry. Okay. Gemma stays in there. Stuntman Chuck. Absolutely. A regular.
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Aloha bricks. Good to see him or her.
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C
Yeah, Aloha bricks. Making an appearance. All right, so here's the regulars. Keep it up in the chat.
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B
Clark Brady. Just untouched.
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C
I mean, to be fair, Clark Brady.
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B
It's like Pete George Federer.
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C
When you allocate that amount of time, you get at least two weeks of the number one ranking.
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No debate here.
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Let's get into what's on tap, which is brought to you by Bud Light, the official beer sponsor of the NFL. Sundays are easy to enjoy when they are full of football and the fridge is filled with beer. And we're gonna make it even easier for you by taking some of your best questions. This one from General Kenobi. Who should I start at the flex this week? Zay Flowers or Treveon Henderson? Denny, what do you think of this dilemma?
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This is tough because you know you're talking about a Buffalo defense that has been really bad. Just all around bad, but really soft against the run. I feel like Henderson can get there with like 10 touches here, but how can you pencil him in for 10 touches? I would lean Zay Flowers here, but just for other folks, Henderson is not a bad play because of the nature of the matchup.
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Yep. Firstly, great to see General Kenobi is alive and well. I was pretty sure he died at the end of A New Hope, but that's ok. Glad to see he's back in business. Asking questions about Zay Flowers. Henderson. Yeah. General Kenobi. My answer would be Ze Flowers as well. Despite we talked about in the previous segment about how his receiving prop is relatively low, I would lean over 45 and a half receiving yards. I think that the nature of Zay's game Connor is that he's not going to be relying on Cooper rush making 10 out of 10 throws down the sideline. They'll be able to manufacture touches for Zay.
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No. When you look at a backup quarterback, you try to get him comfortable and give him some layups. And I think Zay Flowers, the beauty of his game is he can give a quarterback layups as good as anybody in this league. So I pretty comfortably would say Zay Flowers on that one. Our next question here is from Elzaza to Alave versus the Giants or Hunter Henry versus the Bills. Jay, the old wide receiver versus tight end star question. It is half point ppr, so keep in mind the touchdown equity is a little bit more important here.
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Yeah. Can you imagine asking this question three years ago is like the best rookie wide receiver in the league alongside Garrett Wilson.
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Yeah, they were neck and neck for rookie of the year.
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The thing is, like, Olave's not even playing that poorly at the moment. It's just he's being missed on a lot of targets by my man Spencer Rattler. And Hunter Henry is turned into somehow a top eight tight end. There's going to be huge throw script with the. With the Patriots going up against the Bills in a total that's pushing 50. But at the same time, like, it's still Chris Olave.
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Right.
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The fault there against the giant secondary, that can certainly be had if they can avoid the pass rush. See, Matthew's got Chris Olave ranking 17th, ahead of A.J. brown. Sorry, I got to take the guy who's ranked the head of A.J. brown and Brian Thomas Jr. Over the great, the immortal Hunter Henry.
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You agree with that, Danny?
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Oh, yeah. I mean, look, Olave is going to get there eventually. I'm going to keep writing him up in regression files every week. He's being targeted on 27% of his routes. That's strong. It won't feed your family, but eventually it might. So keep. Keep playing a lobby.
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All right, our last question from Victor. Flex option Judkins, Woody Marks, Keenan Allen or Teteroa McMillan. And now have Rashad White. I'm assuming that's who it is. Crying for help. No pun intended. What do you think of this, Jay? A lot of intriguing, a lot of upside, like rookie options in this question.
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Indeed. I think it is between Quinshon Judkins and ted arrow and McMillan. The issue is the team act just doesn't score touchdowns yet. I'm sure they'll come at some point, but I think the answer is Quinton Sean Judkins. We've seen that he gets so much volume and they've been successful enough running that he's kind of immune to game script. The fact that he was able to have the game he did against the Lions despite them getting completely blown out. Also the fact he was able to have the game in terms of a per play basis that he did against the Ravens when they were getting blown out too, I think bodes very well. They're only three and a half point dogs against the Vikings across the pond. And you see Matthew has him ranked as running back night. Who would have thought just a few weeks ago that Week 5 of the NFL season that Javonte, Williams, Quinshaw, Judkins and Cam Scatterboo would all be top 10 running backs?
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Crazy. Yeah, Denny, it just feels hard to not play Judkins right now with how I know he's running into loaded boxes. And Dylan Gabriel probably doesn't inspire confidence, but he looks really good.
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He does. And by the way, Jay said, who would have guessed Judkins would be in the top 10? Conor would have guessed. Conor's been telling us for months they want to feed this guy the rock. And so I listened. I want you to know that.
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Thank you, Danny. I appreciate you. We should have. We should have you on more for this segment, actually. Matthew, enjoy Tuscaloosa for now.
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Somebody's got a. Somebody's got to listen to you. So listen, Judkins is probably the play. I do want to say, though, Ted McMillan has a great matchup against a very bad Miami secondary and he is dominating targets and air yards in this Carolina offense. I feel like this is a spike week for him, but he's probably a more high variance play than Judkins in week five.
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B
Yeah. I'm not sure if everyone saw Matthew running the 40 AT&T Stadium on Sunday, but that is basically what the Dolphins are trotting out of cornerback at the moment. It's. It's very bleak. So if T Mac is ever gonna really ignite, he's been fine. He's been solid. TMAC has like 4 fewer receiving yards than Igbuka at this point or something.
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C
Yeah, it's been very good.
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B
Yeah, no, I think. I think that this might be the week he explodes.
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Julio, think you are evil, jaded. You have something to do with this to get me out of the rankings?
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No, I voted for you. You were six on my committee submission.
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I don't even have a ballot, so I don't know what's. What's going on here. By the way Juliothink you are. Also said it went downhill after Big show left. That was a pretty good comment, Tej. I'm snubbed again. That's great.
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B
That's a disgrace.
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We're obviously voting for you. I don't know how people's choice.
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You're like Martin Scorsese before he won for the depart. Yeah, I get there eventually.
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C
Exactly right. Aloha Bricks. Yes, I made the top 10. Yes, you did.
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B
Aloha Bricks. Well deserved.
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Very nice debut for Aloha Bricks. That'll do it for what's on tap. Presented by Bud Light, easy to drink, easy to enjoy and Cody Kiger. I got robbed.
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B
I haven't seen you much pop up on the screen, Cody. I'm not going to pay that yet.
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But maybe next week for everybody. Keep it coming. Dave Ball. I'm coming for that top 10. David B. Saw a man fall to his knees in Costco over those rankings.
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Please video that like Willem Dafoe at the end of platoon.
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Oh my goodness. Or Andy Dufresne and Shawshank. But that was more of a celebration.
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Defoe, not so much.
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Not so much.
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He was being shot dead.
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Yep.
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The crowd is here.
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C
It's yours. All right, it's time for Last call. We got pickup lines for Denny this week. As we look, Jay and I are both two and two fighting back. Yes, you are. Yes. You had no. 2 start. You are now hit your last two.
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B
Yep.
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C
Matthew's picked you three times. I don't know when he's picked correctly or not. We'll work on that. Denny though is in the driver's seat this week. Jay, what do you got for him?
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B
Yeah, glad to try and pick up a man closer to my own age for once playing more in my own ballpark. Here is my pick for you, Denny. Stefon Diggs over 45 and a half receiving yards. 45 and a half for Stefan Diggs. He had six for over 100 yards last week against the Panthers. This total against the bills is pushing 50. Drake May is more than a touchdown underdog. Suspect that he's going to need to throw to catch up. Stefon Diggs as well. The underlying stats I get is Beth best PFF grade of the season last week. His separation scores are great. He looks to me like he is trending in the right direction health wise coming off that acl. And for the wide receiver one for a quarterback who Drake May is fourth in EPA per play this year. Drake May is good. He has really lifted this season. So I think this just all doesn't compute. I think Stefan Diggs is now the clear wide receiver one for Drake May. And if that's the case, this number needs to be closer to 60 than 45 and a half.
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I
To be honest with you Connor, that's going to be hard to beat.
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Yeah, this happens to me every week. It's okay. I'll tell you a number that I think is the other way. It's set too high. Tony Pollard's rushing prop is 65 and a half. Right. And yeah, that's a normal prop for a running back that gets the volume he gets. But listen to this. Obviously Tajie Spears is going to be back. That could help a little bit here. Tony Pollard is averaging 65 rushing yards per week, but that's been on 17 rush attempts per game. So if Spears is back, you think the attempts go down. He's averaging under 4 yards per carry. Arizona is giving up 96 rushing yards per game but only 80 per game to running backs. And the only single handed running back to go over 65 and a half yards this against Arizona all year is Kenneth Walker. And they had game script for over three quarters of that game. So Tony Pollard is set at 65 and a half. I like the under this. This feels high right now, Denny, for an offense that. It just feels like in the second half they have to live by throwing the ball.
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I
Listen, I can't pick both of you. Is that correct? I have to pick one.
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B
You'll choose one. So that's where the game is.
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I
So you're both correct. I want to. I just. I just want to be clear. There's no possibility Tony Pollard gets to that yardage number. Okay. This. This Titans offense. Well, I'm going with Jay. It's based on vibes. If Stefan Diggs is ever going to have a big game in his whole life for the rest of his career, it's again, it's going to be against his former mates in Buffalo. And it's over 100 yards easily.
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All right, that's it for us. I lose again.
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Jay.
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For Denny, it's always great having him join us and Jay, I'm Connor. The boys will be back Sunday morning for fantasy football pre game. Have a great weekend, everyone.
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